In re the Arbitration between Turkewitz & Fuchsberg & Fuchsberg

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered June 21, 1999, confirming an arbitration award in favor of petitioner and against respondent, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The award of partnership income was properly confirmed, even if, as respondent argues, such claims would have been held barred if brought in court. An arbitrator’s award “will not be vacated even though * * * his interpretation of the agreement misconstrues or disregards its plain meaning or misapplies substantive rules of law, unless it is violative of a strong public policy, or is totally…